Creating an educational summer bucket list with your children can be a fun and engaging way to keep learning alive during the break.

Pull out your notebooks and write 10 goals for the summer, or 10 things you want to learn, or 10 things you want to do. Having your children make the list helps make it easier to plan your next studies and carve out interest led summer learning.

Here are some ideas that combine education with summer fun:

Visit a museum
Take a nature walk or hike
Camp in your backyard
Start a garden
Go geocaching
Beach or lake day
Go on a bike ride
Keep a summer nature journal
Create a summer reading challenge
Build a sand castle
Volunteer as a family at a food bank or animal shelter
Make ice cream or popsicles
Connect with a pen pal
Go swimming
Have a lemonade stand
Cook or bake a new recipe
Raise tadpoles, butterflies, praying mantis or ladybugs
Go to a local fair or festival
Build a marble run with toilet paper rolls
Make your own volcano eruption experiment
Play in a creek
Catch fireflies at night
Make sun art
Go stargazing at night
Have a backyard bonfire with s’mores
Water balloon toss
Make homemade lemonade
Practice a sport
Visit a farmers market
Watch fireworks
Make homemade playdough
Play flashlight tag
Create an obstacle course
Pick fresh berries
Visit a splash pad
Make your own kite and fly it
Go fishing
Learn a new instrument
Make sun tea
Tie dye t-shirts
Have a family movie night with build your own ice cream sundae bar and homemade popcorn
Go to a drive in movie
Make an ocean themed sensory bin
Play a family yard game like corn hole, bocce ball or ring toss
Visit the zoo or aquarium
Paint kindness rocks to place around your town
Go on a nature scavenger hunt
Have a homemade pizza night
Make a DIY solar oven
Explore a new park